The Head of Open Source Governance at Thomson Reuters joins Black Duck's CEO in this webinar sharing real-world insights into how to strategically bring open source methods within your development organization to improving speed and quality of development, while simultaneously impacting your business’ bottom line.
View this presentation for examples of how Thomson Reuters enable new levels of collaboration inside and outside the company, with a pro-open source development strategy that helps them recruit and retain top developer talent, while also facilitating social creativity.
17. ABOUT THOMSON REUTERS
• Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent
information for businesses and professionals
• We combine industry expertise and innovative technology
to deliver critical information to leading decision makers
• We are the world’s most trusted news organization
• We serve professionals in the financial and risk, legal, tax
and accounting, intellectual property and science and
media markets
• We are a global company with operations in over 100
countries, employing approximately 60,000 people
18. OSS GOVERNANCE OVERVIEW
Idea Generation
Business Planning
Definition
Delivery
Commitment
Review
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
OSS Use Registration
Deployment
Support & Measure
Obsolescence
F4L
Review
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Source Scanning
OSS not approved
Review
Remediation
OSS Approved
Ready
to be
Hosted
Ready
to Ship
19. CONTRIBUTING TO EXISTING
COMMUNITIES - BENEFITS FOR THOMSON
REUTERS
• Attracting and retaining talent
– Peer recognition is valued, maintaining a professional online
presence is becoming the norm
– TR is not a well known technology company particularly
among new college graduates
• Fostering goodwill within the OSS communities
whose solutions we use
– Giving back instead of just taking
• Influencing/driving the strategic direction of
communities we use extensively in our products
– Think Tomcat, Jquery, log4j, Java, Apache Commons, …
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20. WHAT’S TO MANAGE?
• Loss of reputation
– Code submitted with bugs/poorly designed, disparaging
remarks
• Loss of intellectual property rights, copyright
retention rights
– Not all OSS licenses are created equal
• Loss of competitive advantage
– Assume our competitors are using it even if they are not
active in the community
• IP contamination
• Copyright, trademark infringement
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21. NEW COMMUNITY PROCESSES
-Provide processes for gaining approval to create
new external open source communities with TR IP
-Presents a structured and considered approach to
creating new communities
- Education: technology groups gain understanding of what’s
involved to be successful
- Strategy and plan: project rationale, content, benefits and risks
defined and considered ahead of launch
- Commitment: resources required are acknowledged and provided
- Legal protection: contributor assignment forms are established
- IP review: project is screened for patented/able material, now and
future
22. NEW COMMUNITY PROCESSES
Clarification or
Modification Request
Submit
Community
Request
Review
and
Triage
Request
Rejected
Clarification or
Modification Request
Develop
Strategy and
Plan
Review
and
Approve
Plan
Rejected
Implement
and Launch
Community
23. NEW COMMUNITY BUSINESS CASE
•
Potential business value to TR
–
Quantitative wherever practical
•
•
•
–
$$ saved in maintenance (hard to determine)
Reduced cost of sales
$$ in new sales
Qualitative
•
•
Strategic value is usually qualitative
Direct and potential cost to TR
–
Community implementation and launch costs
–
Community operating expense, promotion costs
•
Community viability assessment and key factors
•
Assessment of other risks and key factors
•
Technology strategy
•
Licensing strategy
•
Community strategy
•
High level implementation plan
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24. CORPORATE SOURCE VISION
Increase software velocity,
cost savings and
innovation
while enhancing employee retention &
recruitment through the harnessing of
collaborative energy, expertise and code from
across the enterprise.
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27. CORPORATE SOURCE ACCCOMPLISHMENTS
• Uptake increasing
– Adoption moving from basic component to standard
distribution and outright collaboration
• The registry for APIs across TR
• Integration with other TR development services
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28. CONCLUSIONS
• There is more to OSS governance than just
managing the use of OSS
• Manage internal demand for contributing and
creating new OSS communities
• Adopt inner sourcing practices to realize real
business benefits
29. Questions?
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Notes de l'éditeur
Data Source: GSMA Wireless Intelligence 2012Software and specifically open source software – Android as well as iOS -- has revolutionized the mobile industry.
Connected Cars WW (Source: ABI Research. July 2012).11% in 201260% by 2017Software and open source will revolutionize automobiles. By 2017, 60% of cars WW will be network connected (80% in the US).The infotainment platforms they deploy – many built on the GENIVI open source specification using Linux – will revolutionize automobiles as we know them
LG smart appliances include features that make it easy to connect your appliances to your smartphone, e.g., Near Field Communications (NFC).They offer self-diagnosis capabilities, so it can tell a user via their smartphone when and why it’s experiencing a problem. It can also allow the machine to get better over time via washing cycle downloads – so if LG engineers a better way to wash your undies, theoretically they’ll be able to push it out to your smartphone and your washer whenever you choose to connect. LG uses open source in their smart appliances: https://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensourceList?superOsCategoryId=CAT00000014&osCategoryId=
And software is getting wearable and personal. Wearable devices are proliferating – smart watches, fitness monitors like the NikeFuelBand, and Google Glass to name a few.And devices don’t stop there. Projections for the “Internet of objects” are mind boggling:Currently, there are more than 12 billion devices that can connect to the Internet. However, by 2015, Cisco projects there will be 25 billion, with that number jumping to 50 billion by 2020, nearly seven times the number of people on the planet.
FOSS projects and our KB are growing rapidly (30-50% per year), over a million projects today growing to 2 million by 2014.
IT Organizations are looking outside their org’s, and eyeing the innovation, creativity, productivity and importantly the developer talent in open source communities.They’re moving to engage in projects of strategic importance to their business, opening up, connecting to communities sharing significant contributions
Key attributes of inner-sourcing:CollaborationSelf-organization Transparency EgalitarianismMeritocracyWe’ve helped customers implement community methods: ThomsonReuters, Philips Healthcare, US Navy, a global FS institution, etc.
Open source methods are being adopted by entire industries….
The over one million open source projects represent the collective wisdom of hundreds of thousands of developers.It is a resource of incalculable value that enables developers to learn from what’s been done before. The code it represents can speed development, and, what’s more important, the collective knowledge it represents encourages new ideas and creativity.And it’s growing almost 50% per year. Developers are sharing, reusing and repeating.
Knowledge is the foundation for creativity, and creativity adds to the world's collective knowledge. Community and connections speed the process.
Black Duck’s mission is to maximize the ability of organizations to create economic value through the adoption of open source technologies and methods.Our software and consulting unleashes and reinforces the creative capacity of development teams by connecting them across company and community boundaries with the knowledge, visibility and controls needed to confidently integrate and scale the use of open source software.